Get yourself a Mudhutter subscription, delivered straight to your door by your poor, beleaguered, recently privatised postie, and at a bargain price!

Well, you’ve come to the right place!! Priced at just £10 for five issues, postage is FREE for all printed copies of the mag and we are again offering a digital subscription where you will receive a PDF copy of the fanzine into your inbox on the day of release of each issue.

Here at Mudhuts Towers, we are eternally gratefully to all our readers but especially our subscribers as your commitment to us means we are committed to you in bringing you the best quality content we can muster up.

There’s even a rumour going around that Jimmy is going to learn mail merge and buy some envelopes that actually stick together if we can get 50 subscribers again this year…..

Look, we know we’re late, you don’t need to tell us, but we’ve had stuff to do.

Anyway, here we are with a new season already underway, and it’s looking almost as depressing as the first 6 months of last year. But we have faith at The Mudhutter, and we know that Uwe will put things right.

So what’s in this issue?

We have Les Bagg’s usual stuff, which includes a section on John Alder and Liam Sweeney, 2 Geordies who were killed when the Russians shot down the Malaysian Airlines jet over the Ukraine.

We even have a Mudhutter exclusive, an interview with The Duke himself, Nathan Ellington. You can see what he has to say about him leaving Latics, and the exact reasons he went to West Brom.

Plus, of course, all the usual guff and nonsense that we turn out year after year. We really do thank you for your loyalty.

With our all new German style efficiency the latest issue of the Mudhutter hits the streets this weekend with 48 pages of carefully thought out prose and pictures from Wigan’s finest selection of helmets.

A more pensive, reflective, provocative, expensive, selective, creative, primitive, vegetative pamphlet you could not wish to acquire if you are so that way inclined.In this issue we pay tribute to Jason Roberts and Britpop, talk Pies and Poetry, and reminisce over Wigan Casino, internet message boards and local history. We cast our eyes over the FA Cup semi final and preview the run in and just what that man Rosler has got in store. Looking back, looking forwards and taking stock of where we are.

48 pages as ever by the fans, for the fans. Every issue see the same old contributors in their twenties to their fifties augmented by new faces putting pen to paper to extol the virtues of Wigan, Wigan Athletic or indeed any topic of their choosing like a council estate version of Mastermind. Putting pen to paper, from the heart, for you the selective, intelligent minority of Wigan Athletic supporters who like to read and take in what someone has bothered to write rather than doing all the talking.

And with that I’ll shut up. Apart from to say that you can buy both the printed and the new-fangled digital versions from the following links –

Well, from almost nothing, here we are. An FA Cup semi-final, into the play-off positions, still profitable and a manager who wears long kecks. Good times, indeed, to be a Latics mon.

Following on from the Coyle debacle, who would’ve thought Uwe Rosler, a manager with a pedigree that could be called more “solid” than “spectacular” would be the one to lead us out of the Scottish wilderness? 8 wins on the trot, a run foiled only by a Yeovil team intent on getting another 3 players sent off, but helped by a referee who thought Jordi Gomez timing a tackle perfectly was worthy of the same punishment as James McArthur being hacked down from behind about 10 minutes after the ball had gone.

Not only that, we’re playing football which is not only full of purpose, but isn’t short on attractiveness either. I mean, we’ve finally got midfielders running from midfield, for goodness’ sake.

But I digress.

All this, and much much more is in the MFE Issue 46. We have interviews with two former players as well as music legends of both the past and the future, the revitalisation of Jordi Gomez in the unlikely role of Latics Hero and tons of other stuff.

The Printed Edition can be bought from the shop on this very site, and the Digital Edition will be on sale from 10 o’clock on the morning of the match. If you are a subscriber to the Printed mag, you can log in and read all this season’s issues for nowt. Mind you, Migs has proved spectacularly inept at getting that particular feature working properly, so if you’ve any problems, let us know and we’ll see what we can do to fix it.

So the march towards Issue 50 continues at its usual leisurely pace. I know, us neither.

So it came to pass that Owen Coyle lasted all of five and a half months, or two Mudhutters if you prefer. And we were looking forward to having some fun with the bell end too….ah well, the slightly delayed from Christmas Issue 45 is about to hit the streets. Weighing in at a 52 pages it’s fatter than Grant Holt and doesn’t go on about Carlisle or greyhounds all the time, although the subject matter is often just as irrelevant.

We’ve got two interviews with former Latics photographer Frank Orrell and Man City fan The Paris Angel and we’ve got European tales a plenty. We haul over the coals of the Coyle regime and several regulars give their views on 2013 and the state of play at Wigan Athletic as we head into (yet another) new era.

Aside from football we look at the other important things in life: pies, pubs, crap Christmas presents and Uncle Joe’s mintballs plus there’s all your usual features packed into it with all the frivolity of a match day mascot and none of the class.

Anyway, here’s the bit which I faithfully type out every time we have a fanzine on sale and every time a few days later someone will ask “where do you get yer fanzine from”